The families of two young Susquehanna County men, electrocuted while installing a new roof on a house, will receive nearly $30-million as a result of an out of court settlement, the Sunday Independent has learned.

Attorneys for a 50-year-old Exeter man who suffered irreversible brain damage following a 1998 kidney stone operation entered into a confidential settlement agreement on Monday with Wyoming Valley Health Care System and a Wilkes-Barre anesthesiologist.

Kristie's Family Get Record-Setting $16 Million Verdict. The lawsuit against PG&W began three years ago, after eight year old Kristie Emershaw died of carbon-monoxide poisoning from a clogged chimney in her grandparents home.

The award is the result of a protracted legal battle over the 2002 death of 44-year-old Donna M. Kapacs. The Archbald woman's family filed suit against Moses Taylor Hospital and others after she died at the hospital three days after undergoing cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to test the heart's ability to pump blood.

A Dunmore woman who was badly hurt when her car was hit by a runaway garbage truck will collect nearly $11 million. Insurers for waste hauler J.P. Mascaro & Sons will pay the money -- some in lump sums, some in regular payments -- to Phyllis Burton and her husband, Joseph.

A jury awarded nearly $10.4 million to William and Joan Godlewski in the death of their infant daughter, Gina, who died from brain damage suffered during delivery at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. The award was one of the largest in Luzerne County history, and was the second multimillion-dollar award obtained by HKQ for the death of an infant during an 18-month period.

The state Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a more than $10 million verdict in favor of a Dickson City woman who was injured in crash with a dump truck. Attorney Joseph Quinn of Kingston filed suit on behalf of Holly Ann Kuchwara and her husband, Robert, against Valvano Construction Inc. of Dickson City and its driver, Theodus Williams, in connection with a May 2010 crash on Dundaff Street in Dickson City.

In one of the largest verdicts in Luzerne County history, a jury on Friday awarded a Dickson City woman and her husband just more than $10.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages for injuries the woman suffered after her vehicle was struck by a dump truck.

A 12-member Luzerne County jury awarded nearly $8.8 million in the case of a former state trooper who was struck and disabled by a drunken driver in 1983.
The award is the second largest in the county's history and may be the largest of its kind ever in Pennsylvania, according to a court official close to the case.

Thornton was admitted to Mercy Hospital on Aug. 17, 2000 to undergo a biopsy and possible lobectomy related to a 1-centimeter nodule that had been discovered on an incidental x-ray performed several months earlier.

Additional conditions of settlement required Mercy Hospital to acknowledge that this was not a frivolous lawsuit and that it should have told the family the truth about what had occurred from the beginning. Mercy Hospital will also set up an educational program in Mr. Thornton's name.

It cost two doctors and Wilkes-Barre Mercy Hospital $7 million Monday to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that accused them of responsibility in the death of Frank Thornton through "medical misadventure."

$6.25 million verdict following a 6 week jury trial in medical malpractice trial involving death of 3 yr old child which resulted from failure of Hospital and team of pediatric specialists to properly diagnose and treat an easily correctable anatomical condition which caused abnormal rotation and eventual rupture of child's stomach.

Patricia Sabol collapsed and died 11 hours after she was discharged from the emergency room at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre hospital in September 2006. Doctors at the hospital had attributed Sabol's severe abdominal pain to a urinary tract infection and sent her home with a prescription for antibiotics before anyone had reviewed an X-ray that indicated a more severe condition.

A Luzerne County judge on Wednesday approved a $3 million settlement for a medical malpractice case, but he refused to seal the settlement as had been requested by a state fund that will pay part of the money.

$690,000.00 SETTLEMENT REACHED IN MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING JOGGERS
A Husband and Wife were jogging in Wilkes-Barre the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2015 when a driver operating a large pick-up truck violently struck Husband while Wife watched helplessly as Husband was carried on the top of the hood of the pick-up truck for some time before being thrown to the ground.

A 20-year-old Kingston woman received a $100,000 settlement for personal injuries she sustained while a back seat passenger in a friend’s vehicle that was rear-ended by another vehicle on Interstate 81 N.

A $100,000.00 policy limit settlement was quickly obtained for a 57-year-old woman who suffered significant injuries to her dominant hand's ring finger when attacked by an unconfined and uncontrolled dog.

Rhode Island married couple obtained a $93,000 settlement for husband’s personal injuries and wife’s loss of consortium claim from a motor vehicle collision in Moosic, PA caused by negligent New York driver who ran a red light near Montage Mountain.

A 54-year-old-woman received an Arbitration award of $69,703 for personal injuries sustained by other driver’s negligence in causing a chain reaction rear-end motor vehicle collision in Dallas Borough, PA.

A 51-year-old woman settled her underinsured motorist claim (UIM) with her insurance carrier, State Farm, for the policy limit of $25,000 for severe injuries sustained in a rear-end motor vehicle collision in Wilkes-Barre.

A case involving a 64-year individual who sustained back injuries as a result of a slip/fall incident that occurred at a rental property due to failure to have proper rain gutters has been settled for $5,000 for soft type tissue damages.

In this action for specific performance of a real estate contract that stated that time was of the essence, buyer was entitled to a reasonable time within which to settle despite not having tendered payment by the specified closing date since seller's conduct led buyers reasonably to believe that the settlement date would not be enforced.

Moments after doctors tried operating on Frank Thornton, two nurses said they clearly saw signs that Thornton's breathing tube was pumping air into his esophagus instead of his windpipe, the nurses testified Thursday.

Locked operating room doors, hospital records that were allegedly falsified and a risky procedure to position one twin for birth are the key points in a medical malpractice trial that began Monday in the death of the infant.

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